The New Evangelization. What is Christ’s mandate? What does mandate mean?
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The New Evangelization
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What is Christ’s mandate? What does
mandate mean?
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What is the same ?What is different?
…Then
vs
Now…
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Current Cultural Characteristics
• Relativism• Individualism•Materialism• Secularism
Be able to make distinctions
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VERITAS
•What is truth?
“truth is.”
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INhLs0RIAQM&feature=BFa&list=UUH4-usupiIjtT7uETsnLnnQ
What is the difference b/w
objective truth and subjective truth
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Relativism
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Are all things relative?
Relativism is not a single doctrine but a family of views whose common theme is that some central aspect of experience, thought, evaluation, or even reality is somehow relative to something else (Stanford encyclopedia)
- Forms of relativism : “It is all a matter of opinion” Absolutism - freedom and tolerance as absolutes
Make distinctions!!!!!
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Tolerance and freedom are good in themselves, but they are not Gods themselves
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Relativism cont…
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Cultural Relativism
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Moral Relativism
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What IS wrong with relativism?What are consequences of a “relativistic” mentality?
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Truth is. Vs. Opinion is.
• Truth doesn’t change according to your ability to stomach it. (see poster)• Principle of non-contradiction:
something can’t “be and not be” at the same time.
• is the test easy? = relative • Is he tall? = relative• Does that chair exist? =
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Gospel answer to relativism?
• The Truth will set you free• I am the way the truth• The Lord is our God – the Lord is one.
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Individualism
• Looking out for number 1• Theme song in Hell = “I did it my way”
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Individualism vs individuality/diversity
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Gospel response to individualism?
• God• Team• Me
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materialism
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Materialism
Product as an end vs people as an end
You are a human being not a human doing
Nothing you can DO can win God’s love for you. It is always there.
Everything is a grace. You must be poor of spirit and detached to be open to it.
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Secularism
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Religious Freedom vs
Freedom of Worship
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Secularism in govt.
•
• Catholic Charities Adoption Agencies closed• Refusal to rent public building to Christians• Petition this Christmas to call Catholic Church a
‘hate group’• HHS Mandate
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• Gloria = well spoken on HHS• dec31 hobby lobby • pope on secularism
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Compatability (natural law)
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Separation of Church and State
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United Nations and the Arab Spring
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Are there ways you see relativism, individualism, materialism or secularism in the your teenage world?
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What should the new evangelization look like?
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What is your responsibility in the new evangelization?
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Describe the behavior of a true follower of Christ in today’s society….
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Christian
• Virtue – not acting on feeling – but on choice of the good• Prayer – • Concern for others – awareness of others